I turned on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night, and quickly shut it off after hearing the phrase “nerd prom” about seven times and getting sideline reports from at least two guys wearing “wacky” bow ties. Hey, you know what would make the Oscars red carpet even worse? Add cable news pundits and smug DC spin doctors, all filmed on the one night of the year when they’re encouraged to be armchair comedians. Ugh, the worst.

Anyway, since they’re really good at countering the right’s argument that Hollywood is just a mouthpiece for the Democrats, Steven Spielberg showed up to present a parody featurette for Obama (in the vein of Lincoln), starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Barack Obama. It was…. decently funny, actually. Turns out Obama is a better comedy actor than most comedy actors. Also, it was worthwhile solely for reminding me of Bill the Butcher.

Say what you will about Gangs of New York‘s plot, my God, I want to live in that set. If a wild-eyed scientist screeched up to the curb in a time machine and asked me where I wanted to go, I’d be screaming “TOP HAT GANG FIGHT!” before he even got the words out of his mouth.

That video wasn’t amazing, but I couldn’t even get through that never ending “House of Cards” parody, so this one was clearly better? or at least shorter? Anyway, they should just re-run Colbert’s white house correspondents dinner speech in place of ever bothering to do a white house correspondents dinner again.

The great thing about watching videos online, is that you can skip past shit you find boring. Much like I do when I see a Lance post and skip straight to the comment section. BA-DUM-TSH!* Don’t forget to tip Vince and click on all the extra links and adds folks.